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Thursday, January 21, 1932
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAR<
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FIFTH INSTALMENT
Fresh
Jocelyn
I gown had so shinning a loveliness,; bent into this shape; not a pretty
so proud a grace that the man’s one, I grant you. My life is bent.
from a French convent, gi 0 ry in possession induced him to It took much pain of fire and ham-
Harlowe returns to New
Tort to her »acUUy-eieel mother'a take her out. to let the world of mer and great pincers to get me
religious, ambitious woman. The other men gloat enviously at what here. To get me back would be
girl is hurried into an engagement
with the wealthy Felix Kent. Her
father, Nick Sandal, surreptipusly
enters the girl’s home one nignt.
He tells her he used to call her
Lynda Sandal. The girl is torn by
her desire to see life in the raw
and to become part of her mo
ther’s society. Her father studies
he LySda r0 ytei(te 18 her father in his 50 dee P. 50 lo y al and so lovely that
dingy quarters. She finds four men for an instant the soul that was
playing cards when she arrives, torpid in him came to painful life
One of them, Jock Ayleward, her . . drnnnpd his p V o,; f ee iw
father tells her, is like a son to him, ana ne aro PP ea nis e y es > ieeA ms
but warns the girl he is a trifler. a warmth that was not possessive,
Lynda pays a second visit to her not even passionate, cross his face,
father and Jock takes her home, on
he had so quickly, so easily, won. not only torture but death by
In his great smooth-running lim- torture. You see, I give myself away
ousine he carried her off, unchap
eroned, to the theatre, to supper,
danced with her. And Jocelyn re
warded his open and most gentle
seeming worship once with a look
the way stopping with her at an
underworld cabaret.
Jock gets into a fight with a
gangster who insists on dancing
with Lynda. He then takes Lynda
home. Later she mentions Felix’s
name to Jock and Ayleward’s face
displays his demoniac hatred of the
millionaire.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
‘‘How terribly you hate that
man,” said Jocelyn. She spoke as
easily, as lightly as she could.' “I
wish you’d tell me Why.
“Kent came from my town—Rap-
Jocelyn came back that night
happier than she had been since
the first days of her engagement
and profoundly reassured.
In a mood of cafcn, of almost cold
self-possession, she went two or
three evenings later to bid her fa-
to you. As to young Ayleward, if
you fell in love with him—”
He went on evenly, “—then I
should be forced to free myself of
you. Never of him. Never of nim.
Now listen, the boy is gold.
“You did not say that before,
Nick. You said that he was not
the man that Felix is. You said
that he had a poor outlook on life
and a character that might be call
ed unstable.
“You have an excellent memory.”
“It’s one of the things they teach
you in a convent.”
“Well, all that is true. And of all
possible husbands—” • |
“But I should never dream—”
“Of all possible husbands for Miss
ther farewell. She had freed her- .
self of any sentimentality toward Jocel y n Harlowe I can imagine
Jock Ayleward, even of that senti- none worse - A man with a gradge
mentality of an over emphasized against life is not a happy partner
dislike. She had freed herself too for *** woman. Better for a man
, . , _ from sentimentality toward Nick; who has g iven life a grudge against
pel. In Illinois. My father was a not 0 j ^ er affection. The first him -”
clergyman there. Kent was .en v,„ I "What does that mean?
years older than I. When I got
out of the school of mines—mining
engineer was my original profes
sion—he got me my first job.
“Kent bad me sent down to in?
spect a zinc mine.* I went over the
mine with its owner, a man named
Talley. Came back to Rappel with
my report. It was a first-rate mine.
A sure-fire investment. Everylhing
the owner had showed me was O.
K. I was optimistic and cocksure.
Had no reason that I knew of not
to be. I had made a straight re
port on a good mine. I believe,
Miss Sandal, that any other en
gineer would have handed in just
such a report as that was. Kent was
forming a corporation to take over
•this i&iagc Capitalized it at two
million dollars.
“He proposed to sell' this mine to
his townspeople—my townspeople
too—at par, that is, twb million
dollars for the entire issue. I know
now that Algernon Talley was
willing to sell the mine to Kent for
one million dollars. My report—you
see my name, my father's name,
was good—was printed and circuit
ed. I was elected secretary of the
corporation and consulting eng
ineer. They gave me a small block
•of stock. I fancied myself sud
denly rather a big man.
“It is necessary before a stock is
actually sold. Miss Sandal, for an
officer of such' a corporation to
make an affidavit to the Secretary
of the Commonwealth based on his
personal knowledge and setting
forth the exact value of the assets
upon which the stock is issued.
Kent got me to make this affidavit.
I “Now, listen closely. The making
of such an affidavit, falsely or
heedlessly, subjects the maker to
fine and to imprisonment.
There was a gray shadow on this
young man. Lynda drew back a lit
tle in her chair. Something that
had been mysterious in his aspect
was explained to her.
“That mine turned out to be no
good, Miss Harlowe. The stockhol-
<e
frien
vestment. I was prosecuted, found
guilty and sentenced to three years
in state’s prison.”
Lynd^ spoke with a certain diffi
culty:
“I understand that you would
naturafly be tempted to find some
such explanation for your own ter
rible mistake. But, since I know
Mr. Kent very well, I find the whole
story—as you tell it—perfectly pre
posterous.
Jock was looking at her carefully
and coolly. He bowed.
“I didn’t suppose you would be
lieve me. i merely wanted 1 to ex
plain to you my hatred of Felix
Kent. I hoped that it might dam
age him with you.”
As he turned to leave he handed
her a slip of paper.
“Here is* Nick’s new address. He
didn’t like your coming to that oth-
place. You’ll come to see him?”
“Yes.”
Marcella and Felix both returned
to town. On his first evening with
Jocelyn, Felix proved a very enter
taining lover. Jocelyn In & green
deed of her release and her en
richment would be Nick’s rescue.
In this mood of fiery deliverance
‘did Jocelyn Harlowe in one of her
own gdwns—for Lynda Sandal had
been condemned to death—ap
proach her father’s new abiding
place.
Nick was obviously ill at ease in
“A man who has put his foot on
the neck of life and thrashed the
hide off it!”
“You think that Felix Kent is
such a man?” /
“From what I know 6f him Felix
Kent is such a man.”
“It’s a cruel picture.”
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“I’m going to be fool enough to take you home,” asserted Jock.
its stiff ugliness but also just as
obviously proud to receive her in a
room of respectable cleanness,
newness and unsullied past. There
was no sign of Ayleward’s presence.
No cards anywhere. There wasn’t
in fact so much as an ash try or a
magazine on the shiny central
table with its pink-parchment-
shaded lamp,
“Are you well again? Jock told
me you’d been sick with pain and
fever,” she asked him.
“I’m all right again. In fact, I’ve
planned a surprise for you. Let’s go
out,” Nick said.
In a taxicab which it cost Nick
some torturing moments to enter
Will
Lynda forced herself to ask,
Ayleward be there.”
“I dare say.”
“I wish,” she said with coolness,
almost with nonchanance, “that
re-riny townspeople, my father’s ° f ^ yl « ward ' P ay him
lends, my frlends-lost their in-] 0 ” start a ? aln ”
Nick, crouching painfully in his
corner over a cane, squinted
sidelong, mockingly.”
“Perhaps. But a woman will and
must follow such a master.”
“You told me if I was afraid. . ”
“Oh that! How little you know!
A woman is never afraid of these
big solid masters of life or of her
self. She fears shadows and fail
ures, uncertainties and broken
men.”
The “swell joint” was really
rather pretentious though Jocelyn
suspected it to be rarely frequented
by people known to her mother or
to Felix Kent.
Lynda was of course enchanted.
She wished for her green frock or
her red one and her eyes began to
glow. To one of the retired tables
Nick led her. Here were already
Jock Ayleward with two of the men
Lynda had met on her first visit:
James Drury and Gustav Lowe,
looking extraordinarily sleek and
solid and greeting her with a gooji
deal of startled gallantry. Jock
rose, looked her in the eyes, smiled
U P | with his lips only and sat down-
, again.
Why so, gracious and gentle
lady?
' “He has been in prison. He is a
professional gambler. I hate to
think that you are dependent upon
his charity, that you live by what
he steals.”
A gambler doesn’t steal, Saint
Almost immediately two other
men joined them, young fellows in
) well-cut evening clothes, very
slightly the worse for liquor, with
the grace and the tang of gentle
folk and the flexible frank faces of
youth at revelry, predestined vie-
Lynda. He eases people from their! tlms of the ancient game of Fox
money only by their own consent, i and ° eese ’ Lynda was the only
In other words, you are ashamed of ' woman at the table and these new -
me, my friends and my condition? comers visibly reioiced ’
“No.” v A Jock rose and asked her to dance.
“Then why try to change them? His expression dared her to refuse
I’ve no intention of changing any- him - she hesitated, color deepening
thing for the sake of Mrs. Felix in her face » then she stood up and
Kent.” moved out into the room with him.
“You make me angry. You hurt They danced together smoothly and
me, Nick.” | hi silence.
“Exactly. I have felt the same ! “You’ve learned,” said Jack pres-
symptoms toward you.” ! ently, speaking close to her ear.
In dismay the girl turned her “you’ve learned to bear the touch
tilted eyes upon him beseechingly, of a jailbird. You can even let one
“We mustn’t quarrel.” bold you in his arms.”
“Ah, so you do love me a little! ^ “I’ve come here. I must go
I’m not angry now, nor hurt. Only through with it. I do not enjoy this
Lynda, don’t try to change me. I’m dance.”
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“I think you do.”
“Really?” She looked straight up
into his eyes. They were filled with
a pained gamin laughter/
“Some of you enjoys it,” he went
on in spite of her icy look. “We
dance well together. We both love
music. If you cbuld forget every
thing you think you know about
me, if you weren’t jealous of me—”
she half stopped, “with Nick—”
they went on, “and if you weren’t
a little bit afraid—”
As he spoke her very expert part
ner made a misstep, glanced
; doubtfully down at her, recovered
himself and almost with violence
drove her, doubling the time of
their rhythm and dancing like a
dervish, away from that part of
the room and before she knew it
he had taken her out through one
of the glass doors of the entrance.
There she stopped above the sem
icircular stairs, disengaged her
self and saw that he was white
and breathing hard.
| i “What is the matter? Take me
back to Nick.”
“I’m going to be fool enough to
take you home.”
“Mr. Ayleward!”
“Miss Sandal, you are not to go
back into that room. Not if I have
to carry you down the stairs. I have
a good reason. Go ’down and get
your wrap. I’ll try to signal to
Nick. It’ll be all right. You must
trust me.”
“I can’t possibly trust you.”
“Miss Sandal, if you force me to
make a scene you will regret it
more than anyone. Have you for
gotten how angry you were with me
once when I involved you in., a
scene?”
She had not forgotten. She flush
ed at the memory; looking up at
him she rea’d in his eyes a desper
ate and curiously gentle determin
ation and found herself obediently
going down the stairs. Ayleward
stood above the block her view of
the glass doors; so she missed the
rhythmic passing of Toni Padrona’s
woman clenched in the arms of
Felix Kent, her eyes blazing into
his with something that looked
like hunger and reproach.
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
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Igiiace Jan Paderewski, famous
musician who was premier of Poland
after the War, has returned for an
other concert tour of the U S.
OULAHAN—
A few days ago the President of
the United States took time off
from his arduous duties to attend
the funeral of a newspaper re
porter. A hundred or more of the
highest officials in Washington,
members of the Cabinet, foreign
diplomats, joined Mr. and Mrs.
Hoover in paying a last tribute of
respect to the memory of Richard
Victor Oulahan. I think it is the
only occasion on which a simple
reporter of the news has been so
honored.
Dick Oulahan could have held al
most any public office he might
have aspired to, he could have
been editor-in-chief of almost any
great newspaper, but he preferred
to remain a reporter in the city of
his birth, writing every day for the
New York Times the news of
Washington so truthfully and in
such a dignified manner that he
won the respect of everybody in
public life, while his personal
charm and character made presi
dents and ambassadors his person
al friends.
Dick Oulahan was my school
mate fifty years ago. His life and
.career were the model upon which
many young newspaper men tried
to shape their own.
MURDERS— ' '
With all the publicity that New
York and Chicago gang murders
have got, the public has a notion
that those cities must be dangerous
places to live in. But an Alabama
college professor who has been col
lecting the facts about murder in
the United States reports that
there are 77 cities in which there
are more murders in proportion to
population than in New York, and
39 that have a higher per centage
of murders than Chicago. There
are more murders in Memphis,
Tennessee, in proportion to popula
tion, than in any other American
city.
There is no such thing in any
Ameiican city as gangs of mur
derers roaming at large and shoot
ing total strangers because they
don’t like the color of their neck
ties, though some such impression
of life in the big cities seems to be
prevalent. \
I have knocked around this
world a good deal, and as a news
paper reporter have had to go in
to some pretty tough districts at all
hours of day and night, but I nev
er found it necessary to go armed,
nor have I ever known of a sober,
peaceful citizen tending strictly to
his own business being idlled ex
cept by a lunatic.
PROHIBITION—
Anti-prohibitionists are . incur
able optirfiists. Finland has just
repealed its prohibition law v and
American “wets” are jubilant:
How little chance there is of any
such action in this country is
clearly indicated by a poll of the
entire membership of both houses
of Congress taken by International
News Service. Only 155 members
of the House of (Representatives
were willing even to submit the
question of repeal to a popular ref
erendum. It takes 218 to make a
majority in the lower, house of
Congress. Thirty-two senators, or
exactly one-third were in favor of
a referendum. And the question
of legalizing beer could muster only
125 representatives and 21 senators
to its support. i
I think that tha,t proportion is a
fair reflection of public sentiment
in the United States. The anti
prohibitionists are indulging in
what Emerson called “wishful
thinking.”
WAGES—
The International Labor Office of
the League of Nations set out to
compare “real wages” in European
industry with American wages.
“Real wages” m^ans the actual
purchasing power of the workers’
earnings in terms of commodities.
As was expected, the investigators
report that living costs in Euro
pean cities are excessively high
and that few European workers are
able to buy more than the bare le-
cessities of life even in the best of
Umes.
If this investigation results in in
creasing wages and giving overseas
workers a greater purchasing pow-
jr it v;ili help a lot toward restor-
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Auditor’s Notice
I will be at the following places
on dates named to take tax re
turns for 1932, on all personal
property, including monies, credits,
etc., by owner, trustee, guardian,
administrator, attorney, agent, dtc.:
Office, January 1st to 18th.
Joe J. Link’s, January 19th, 9 to
11 a. m.
J. C. Talbert’s, January 19th, 3 to
5 p. m.
R. T. Mayson’s, January 20th; 10
to 12 a. m. /
Quarles’ Store, January 20th, 2 to
5 p. m.
E. M. Morgan’s Store, * January
21st, 10 to 12 a. m.
Farmer’s Supply, Company, Jan
uary 21st, 2 to 4 p. m.
Plum Branch, January 22nd, 2 to
5 p. m.
Office, January 23rd to 25th.
Willington, January 26th, 10 to
12 a. m.
Mt. Carmel, January 26th, 1 to 4
p. m.
Meriwether, January 27th, 10 to
12 a. m.
Clark’s Hill, January 27th, 2 to 4
p. m.
Modoc, January 28th, 10 to 12
a. m.
Parksville, January 28th, 2 to 4
p. m.
Bordeaux, January 29th, 10 to 12
a. m.
Young’s School House, January
29th, 2 to 4 p. m.
Office, January 30th to February
20th.
After that date penalty will be
charged to those that refused to
make returns. All male persons
from 21 to 55 years are liable for
road tax. All from 21 to 60 years
are liable for poll tax, and should
make returns for road and poll.
C. W. PENNAL,
Auditor. McCormick County.
TREASURER’S NOTICE
4 mills
2 mills
5 mills
2 mills
The County Treasurer’s Office
will be open for the purpose of re
ceiving taxes from the 1st day
of October, 1931, to the 15th day
of March, 1932.
All taxes shall be due and pay
able between the 1st day of Octo
ber, 1931 and December 31, 1931.
That when taxes charged shall
not be paid by December 31, 1931.
the County Auditor shall proceed
to add a penalty of one per cent
for January, and if taxes are not
S aid on or before February 1, 1932,
le County Auditor will proceed to
add Two Per Cent and Five Per
Cent from the 1st of March to the
15th of March, after which time
unpaid taxes will be collected by
the Tax Collector. '
The tax levies for the year 1931
are as follows:
For State Purposes 5 mills
For County Purposes 14 mills
For Bonds —^ 10 mills
Constitutional School Tax 3 mills
6-0-1 Law
Mt. Carmel School
District No. 1
WHlington S. D. No. 2
Bordeaux S. D. No. 8
McCormick S. D. No. 4
and Bonds 24 mills
Buffalo SD. No. 5 10 mills
Bellvue S. D. No. 6 10 mills
S. D. No. 7 00 mills
Bethia S. D. No. 8 8 mills
Bold Branch S. D. No. 9 „ 10 mills
Young’s S. D. No. 10 2 mills
Wideman’s S. D. No. 11 —_ 2 mffls
Milway S. D. No. 13 8 mills
Robinson S. D. No. 14 10 mills
Dornville S. D. No. 15 8 mills
Liberty Hill S. D. No. 16 __
Lyon’s S. D. No. 17
Hibler S. D. No. 18
Vernon S. D. No. 21 -
Plum Branch S. D. No. 24
and Bonds 24 mills
Consolidated S. D. No. 1,
Parksville, Modoc and
Clarks Hill, and Bonds __17 mills
All male citizens between the
ages of 21 and 60 years, except
those exempt by law, are liable to*
a poll tax of $1.00 each.
The law prescribes that all male
citizens between the ages of 21 and
55 years must pay $2.00 commuta
tion tax or work six days on the
public roads. v
Commutation tax is included in.
property tax receipt.
T. J. PRICE,
Treasurer, McCormick County.
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8 mills
8 mills
4 mills
jMiss France \
Mile. Emilierihe Caisson de
Souzac, daughter of an attorney at
’Nice, has been chosen “Miss France
of 1932”
ing economic prosperity in Europe,
and that will help all the rest of
the world.
DAVIS—
Several weeks ago in this column
called attention to the public
career of Norman H. Davis and sug
gested that he was a good man to,
keep an eye on. President Hoover
has just appointed him. as one Z
u'* merican delegates to the Gen-.
eral Disarmament Conference to be
held in Geneva, February 2nd. Mr.
Davis is already a member of the
Finance Committee of the League
of Nations. Few Americans at e
better informed on European af
fairs and international finance.
Mr. Davis is a Democrat, and if a
Democrat should be elected Presi
dent this year there is little doub;
that he will hold, a high position In
the next administration.
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